Weekend, Chocolates

I like dark chocolate, caramel, and sweets that are a touch savory. I didn’t stand a chance.

The chocolate in these Trader Joe’s candies snap under a firm bite to unveil a rich interior of caramel. The sea salt is there to right your sensibilities after such a heady sugar rush. You can only have three before passing out, and since twelve come in the package, that means you can have chocolates for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack.

oh my, yum! I bought these and put them away in the cupboard b/c I’m on a no dairy/no soy thing. I wonder how long they’ll keep though. Sea salt caramels are one of my favorite things ever. ever. ever.

Why, oh why, isn’t Trader Joe’s here yet? Wretched luck, really. Although, my family is en route from Sweden, even as I type, and they should have a good supply of chocolate in their suitcase … so I won’t be completely bereft! :)

I’ve never been to Trader Joe’s, mostly because I’ve been working under the idea that they are far more expensive than my neighborhood grocery store… but you seem to shop there often, and find amazing things… I may have to make a point of visiting sometime in the near future!

I shop there because it is cheaper than my local grocery store. They have the best prices on eggs, dairy, bagged salad, etc. And, if you are looking for prepackaged dinner/convenience foods, they have some of the best tasting.

Trader Joe’s is so dangerous this time of year. I went in the other day to pick up some hummus and came out with peppermint Joe-joes, but that was only after resisting buying about 20 other delicious looking treats. I think I gained five lbs just by walking down the Sweets aisle.

omg, those dark chocolate covered mint marshmallows are EVIL! and i suspected the dark chocolate sea salt caramels would be too, which is why they didn’t come home with me… that trip. i can only get one sinfully good treat per trip :p

i live in long beach and often take it for granted that we have 3 TJ’s in town. i feel for all the peeps who either don’t have one or have to make a pretty significant trek to get to one.

I was really, really tempted by these over my last couple trips to TJs. I once bought some cocoa wafer things there, which were a really good deal calorie-wise, but not if you ATE THE ENTIRE THING like I did.

I didn’t even really need to read to the bottom to know how it turned out.

I’d have done the very same thing. Sigh. (Actually, there is a killer chocolate/sea salt caramel – a true caramel – recipe floating around that I made last year. I might have to revisit. I probably shouldn’t.)

We are a military family stationed in Japan. This is my first Christmas away from Trader Joe’s! I am not sure how to celebrate the season without it. Thanksgiving was a chore; but Chritmas seems impossible. These chocolates sound incredible and further my belief that no holiday will ever be the same without TJ’s. I can imagine myself in the Camarillo TJ’s now…. mmmmm, enjoy a few for me.